Ale Borea is a Peruvian percussionist and sound artist based in Berlin. She holds a master’s degree in Philosophy, focusing on the phenomenology of listening. As an independent researcher, she writes about music for various publications and projects, and performs with numerous experimental and independent music groups in Berlin.
Ale Borea launched her solo project in 2020 and has since released three EPs, in which she uses sound archive samples (mainly telecommunication noises) as carriers of affective resonance and collective memory. Her work has been featured in festivals across Latin America and installations in Lima, Berlin, and New Hampshire. Her driving force is the aspiration to explore possible sonic deployments of these
samples by expanding their inherent material vitality into dreamlike soundscapes.
Featured Transmission(s):
- Aired on May 25th 09:15 CEST 2024
- Onda Corta
- Genre: Soundscape Composition
- Duration: 15 min
- “Onda Corta” is a long-duration sound collage made from fragments of short-wave radio recordings from The Conet Project and internet videos uploaded by radio enthusiasts. This piece highlights the ethereal and ubiquitous nature of sounds broadcasted, underscoring their omnipresent essence and phantasmagoric features. Instead of presenting these sounds as static objects trapped in time, mere historical fragments that spring to life only when a listener tunes in, "Onda Corta" delves into the sounds of the signals as an ongoing, anonymous journey of wandering or unfolding. The titles of the tracks draw parallels between the signal-SWR and soldiers, both seen as raw materials and cogs in the machinery of war, secretly yearning to return to a lost past of “peace”. Samples taken from: The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations, available as Free access + YouTube home videos.
2024
